Thursday, September 28, 2017

Zuzana Růžičková, Harpsichordist Who Survived Three Nazi Camps, Dead At 90

Despite suffering damage to her hands during her Nazi ordeal as well as discrimination from Czech Communist authorities who considered her instrument a feudal and bourgeois relic, she went on to become a celebrated international soloist and the first musician to record J.S. Bach's complete keyboard music on harpsichord.



Article source here:Arts Journal

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